14 OCTOBER 1893, Page 41

The Queen's Desire. By Hume Nisbet. (F. V. White.)—This is

a tale of the Indian Mutiny, told with no little force, but certainly not intended virginibus puerisgue. The writer has some- thing to say for Nana Sahib, whom he thinks to have been unfairly treated ; and he is very severe on the follies of Anglo- Indian society, though he does justice to the indomitable courage which the ruling race displayed in the day of trial. We have an impression that Tantia Tepee, undoubted as was his military ability, failed in the personal courage for which Mr. Hume Nisbet gives him credit.